Cassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest's fruits were key to the children's extraordinary survival in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound.
·An Indigenous leader and a family welfare official embrace Saturday outside the military hospital in Bogota, Colombia, where four Indigenous children who survived an Amazon plane crash and spent 40 days in the jungle are receiving medical attention.
The members of the Huitoto people — aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months — are expected to remain for a minimum of two weeks at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia, receiving treatmentColombian President Gustavo Petro, family members, and government and military officials met the children on Saturday in hospital.
The Cessna single-engine propeller plane declared an emergency due to an engine failure. The small aircraft fell off the radar a short time later and a search for survivors began."When the plane crashed, they took out [of the wreckage] a fariña, and with that, they survived," the children's uncle, Fidencio Valencia, told reporters outside the hospital."After the fariña ran out, they began to eat seeds," Valencia said.
An air force video released on Friday showed a helicopter using lines to pull up the children because it couldn't land in the dense rainforest where they were found. Petro called the children an "example of survival" and predicted their saga "will remain in history."Two weeks after the crash, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the children were nowhere to be found.
rebel group. In line with his government's messaging highlighting his efforts to end internal conflicts, he stressed the joint work of the military and Indigenous communities to find the children.
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